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 | | WORCESTERSHIRE, an inland county, bounded on the west by Herefordshire, on the south and southeast by Gloucestershire, on the east and north-east by Warwickshire, on the north by Staffordshire and a detached portion of Shropshire, and on the north-west by Shropshire. |
 | | At the period of the Roman invasion of Britain, the district now included within the confines of Worcestershire is supposed to have been partly occupied by the ancient British tribe of the Cornavii, and partly by that of the Dobuni. |
 | | Worcestershire lies almost entirely in the basin of the Severn, which receives the Stour; Teme, and Avon. |
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